Academic Service, Invited Talk & Collaborative Research
Academic Service, Invited Talk & Collaborative Research
- Dr. Bae will be serving as a Health and AI Session Chair at The ACM (Association of Computing Machinery) CHI 2024 conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems in Hawaiʻi, from May 11-16, 2024.
- Dr. Bae has accepted the role of Program Vice-Chair on the organizing committee for the 21st IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing (UIC 2024), which will be held at Denarau Island, Fiji, from December 2-7, 2024.
- In collaboration with KAIST and KNU, the paper "S-ADL: Exploring Smartphone-based Activities of Daily Living to Detect Blood Alcohol Concentration in a Controlled Environment" will be presented at CHI'24 in Hawaiʻi, from May 11-16, 2024.
- Dr. Bae gave her invited talk on "Digital Phenotyping of Substance Use Behaviors for Just-In-Time Adaptive Interventions" at the Big Data Conference 2024, January 25-26, and on "Multidisciplinary Approach to Better Understand Addictive Behavior" at the HCI@KAIST Seminar, January 8th, 2024.
Research Talk
Research Talk
Congratulations are in order!
- Melik successfully presented his research paper, titled "Towards Enhancing User Experience and Adoption of AI Chatbot Apps for Mental Health" at the 21st International Conference on Systems Engineering Research, held in Tucson, Arizona, from March 25-27, 2024.
- In parallel, Tongze's collaboration with Rutgers and the University of Washington on "Exploring Algorithmic Explainability: Generating Explainable AI Insights for Personalized Clinical Decision Support Focused on Cannabis Intoxication in Young Adults", and
- Rahul's work, "PupilSense: Detection of Depressive Episodes Through Pupillary Response in the Wild", have been accepted at the 2024 Activity and Behavior Computing conference, co-sponsored by IEEE 2024, in Kyushu, Japan from May 28-31, 2024.
- Rahul's open-source framework paper has been recommended for major revisions for MobileHCI 2024. These achievements not only highlight their dedication but also mark significant contributions to the fields of AI, HCI, and systems engineering.
- Rahul, Tongze, and Melik have been selected as the recipients of the School of Systems and Enterprises' 2024 Award for Academic Achievement in the Doctoral Program, Best Student Paper Award, and Fabrycky-Blanchard Award, respectively. Congratulations on these outstanding achievements!
Award
Award
Our NIH U01 grant proposal 🏆, totaling $762,552 with a Site PI allocation of $305,452, has been accepted for the project titled "Monitoring Acute and Longer-term Effects of Cannabis on Psychomotor Performance in Daily Life in Medical Cannabis Patients." The project is scheduled to run from August 15, 2023, to June 30, 2028.
Media Coverage
Media Coverage
New Scientist featured an article titled "AI can detect if you have recently smoked cannabis" showcasing Dr. Bae's study on October 6, 2023
Academic Service
Academic Service
Dr. Bae received special recognition for outstanding reviews in the Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT) 2023 and served as the session chair for AI for Health at the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) 2023. From 2023 to 2025, Dr. Bae also holds the positions of Associate Editor for IMWUT and Associate Chair for CHI.
Symposium Talk
Symposium Talk
Dr. Bae and Rahul presented "Revolutionizing Mental Health Support: An Innovative Affective Mobile Framework for Dynamic, Proactive, and Context-Adaptive Conversational Agents" at the Generative AI for Pervasive Computing Symposium (GenAI4PC), hosted by Google, on October 9, 2023.
Symposium Talk
Symposium Talk
Rahul's paper on "MicroFlow" and Melik, Rahul and Tongze's paper on "Empathetic and Trustworthy AI Chatbots" have been accepted for poster and oral presentations at the 9th International Engineering Systems Symposium (CESUN), which will take place on November 6-7, 2023, in Evanston, Illinois.
Commercialization Program
Commercialization Program
Dr. Bae participated in the Innovations For Substance Use Disorders (I4SUD) Programs & Pitch Competition at Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, scheduled for October 16-20, 2023.
Award
Award
Our proposal for the NIH R21 grant 🏆, totaling $264,594 (with a Site PI allocation of $120,916), has been accepted for the project titled "Smartphone Sensors to Detect Shifts toward Healthy Behavior during Alcohol Treatment" on September 7, 2022.
Panel Discussion
Panel Discussion
Dr. Bae presented a talk at the Research Society on Alcoholism during a panel discussion titled "Personalizing Digital Alcohol Interventions to Optimize Effectiveness" in June 2022.
Workshop Talk
Workshop Talk
Sophia's workshop paper, titled "Exploring Students' Flow States Using Facial Behavior Markers in an Online At-Home Learning Environment", has been accepted for the CHI 2022 workshop on the Future of Emotion in Human-Computer Interaction.
Invited Talk
Invited Talk
Dr. Bae gave a talk in the Seminar Series at the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST) on May 20, 2022, titled “The Future of Mobile Healthcare Systems”.
Media Coverage
Media Coverage
Forbes introduced Dr. Bae's study under the title "Your Smartphone Can Tell If You’re High On Marijuana, Study Finds" on September 27, 2021.
Award
Award
Accepted the proposal for the SSE Dean’s Research Incentive Award 🏆, receiving $39,944 for the project titled "Smart & Connected Spaces: A Testbed for IoT Data Innovation in SSE " on April 12, 2022.
Stevens Media
Stevens Media
Dr. Bae's study was featured by Stevens Media under the title "Smartphone Sensors Are Capable of Detecting Cannabis High and Have the Potential to Provide Early Intervention" on September 29, 2021.
Research & Innovation News
Research & Innovation News
Dr. Bae's study was featured by Stevens Media under "This AI Predicts Binge-Drinking from Smartphone Data" on July 14, 2020.